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The name Nan Madol means "within the intervals" and is a reference to the canals that crisscross the ruins. [12] The original name was Soun Nan-leng, "Reef of Heaven", according to Gene Ashby in his book Pohnpei, An Island Argosy. [13] It is often called the "eighth wonder of the world", or the "Venice of the Pacific". [14]
The City in Texas: A History (University of Texas Press, 2015) 342 pp. Mendoza, Alexander, and Charles David Grear, eds. Texans and War: New Interpretations of the State's Military History 2012 excerpt; Scott, Robert (2000). After the Alamo. Plano, TX: Republic of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-585-22788-7.
The ancient sea, which existed from the early Late Cretaceous (100 Ma) to the earliest Paleocene (66 Ma), connected the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean. The two land masses it created were Laramidia to the west and Appalachia to the east. At its largest extent, it was 2,500 feet (760 m) deep, 600 miles (970 km) wide and over 2,000 miles ...
Atlantic Ocean. Lake Albany in the valley of the Hudson River. [14] Glacial Lake Block Island off the south coast of Rhode Island, west of Block Island. Glacial Lake Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Lake Colebrook on the border of Vermont and New Hampshire, crossing into Quebec. [14] Lake Coos on the border of Vermont and New Hampshire. [14]
The Ship Sarcophagus: a Phoenician ship carved on a sarcophagus, 2nd century AD.. The theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC.
Latex, Texas (Panola County) (Louisiana and Texas) former name of Panola, Texas [22] Mardela Springs, Maryland (Maryland and Delaware) [9]: 22 Marydel, Delaware and Marydel, Maryland (Maryland and Delaware) § Mexhoma, Oklahoma (New Mexico and Oklahoma)town along the Cimarron Route of the Santa Fe Trail; now no longer inhabited [5]
The black-and-yellow tropical bird stares curiously into the camera overlooking a section of road near Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, its beak open as it appears to squawk loudly.
Rheic Ocean, the Paleozoic ocean between Gondwana and Laurussia; Slide Mountain Ocean, the Mesozoic ocean between the ancient Intermontane Islands (that is, Wrangellia) and North America; South Anuyi Ocean, Mesozoic ocean related to the formation of the Arctic Ocean; Tethys Ocean, the ocean between the ancient continents of Gondwana and Laurasia